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4 , IWIUN S00 uniy- Modford and Jsckson County Hilton from thf Mm of The Moll Tifcunt 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yoaA aae. 10 YEARS AOC . loll II. ISMS (Tuaodor) Officiate of Wwt Caaft Air. line. Inc., which yssteraay was fivon Civil Aaronautlcf Board approval tor a Mod-ford-KIamath ralla night, arc "pleased," but "aurprlaed" by the board', action. Owners of tho Houta of Mystery on Sardinr crook road northwest of Gold. Hill have brought cult agalnat ownera of Uncanny Canyon out of Shady Cava on tho Rogue rlvar. SO YEARS AGO April M, 1I4S (Wednesday) Modford track aad Raid team rated favorite to tako dtatrlct high Khool moot; Modford iter Include Chuck Braley, R1U Bayllaa, Lowell Fleser and Date Nledermayer. - iJ... '-v. JrKi T Smudge Pat" column: 'The recent rainfall revealed to ceveral they have a pin-point hole in the tote of raUon card No. 17." 00 YEARS AGO April It, IMS (Pridar) Fifteen salmon caught this morning at Savage Rapids dam. U.S. Sonata denies presi dent authority to pay soldiers bonus with now money to combat Inflation. 40 YEARS AGO April 21. 10S3 (Saturday) Record pear crop predicted; heavy bloom reported In Table Rock area orchards. Cara rune away on aide hill of Oriffin Creek rench, hit ting garage and overturning chicken brooder. SO YEARS AGO April St, ISIS (Monday) Federal Judge announces that 2,300,000 scree of land, loft from grante made in 1SSS, 1870 by the federel govern ment, in order that Oregon and California railroad might bo constructed, la forfeited be cause of failure on the pert of the company to comply with terms of tne grant. D.,1, ,ni suMeir-. m naur SKS . -., - X EjJitf fOCtATWII NATIONAL lOITptlAl Mnntwr CHIIHrill Ktwwtmr Flight o' Time What's Voir I.Q.7 Mfansn ai taBaei mim4 Isa SjusselsaM rtinsj bjt TMl Jliejtjf eaBMBSgerfrrj YtPB S)f tttfjht tt Ws3W 1 1 TtVS) f li Is aaed. 1. The month of fasting dur ing the daytime specined for Moslem believers u called what? 2. A sentence containing only one main clause is called a sentence? 3. Is the name of the South American country correctly spelled Columbia, or Colom bia! 4. In what country was Madame Curie born? 3. On what large river la the Chinese city of Chunking? 6. What Is tha capital of the Republic of Indonesia? , 7. In what language was the novel "Don Quixote" origi nally written? 8. Do human beings inherit the fear of snakes? 5. Glva the name ot the Gen atal who successfully directed the defense of New Orleans In the War of 1812? 10. What American states man was Imprisoned in the Tower of London for fifteen months during the Revolu tionary War? Answers! 1. Ramadan. 2. Staple. S. Catenate. 4. Pol and. S. Yaaffce. S. Jakarta. ?. SpaateV S. No. t. Andrew Jackson, lo. Henry Laurens. UN DAY. APRIL 21. IMS Augury While the legislature is haggling and niggling over the costs of higher education, the Oregon State Employees Association, in cooperation with the American Association of University Pro fessors, conducted a survey. With only a 45 per cent return from profes Bors, associate and assistant professors and in structors on four state campuses, it showed that 606 of them are planning to leave the state, are considering it, or nave been contacted by colleges and universities in other states. This is only a small sample, and from a not uninterested source. But it is a hint of what could happen unless the legislature stops picking at nits and decides our future citizens are too valu able an asset to play politics with. E.A. Great Mens A good friend of ours named Bob Frazier has been in the east the last week and a half, and while he was gone he wrote a series of ar ticles for the Eugene Register-Guard, of which he is associate editor. Washington, D.C., he wrote, is a city which has over the years been a site of operations for thousands of men, great, near-great, and nefar ious. But to him, Washington is always the city of Abraham Lincoln. He wrote : "Whenever I can, I visit the Lincoln Memorial. This I did just now, as soon as possible after my ar rival. I approached it the right way, along the re flecting pool, so that I could see it first at s distance, reflected In the water. "Unfortunately the weather is beautiful. Abe Lincoln Is best visited when the weather is bad. He know so much of it himself. Also bad weather keeps the crowds down. Today there must have been . 200 Americans awarmlng over the great steps that lead to his statue. I Joined them for my own little talk with Aba: I didn't talk out loud this time, although at other tunes, when he and I have been alone up there, I have . .spoken aloud to him . . ." DOB, who is something of a historian, goes on to recount some of the lesser-known tribula tions which confronted Lincoln the President, among them foreign plagued him. And, after his chat our friend turned to look mall toward the Capitol, files of "temporary (since World War I) barracks-like buildings which house governmental offices, and which are a blot and an excrescence on the loveliness of the city. "Is this nation really so poor, I asked myself, that It can't put the torch to those old barracks that cut Lincoln off from Washington and the Capitol? We're in a bsd way If we can really tolerate this desecration ot tha beautiful Mell Just because of a small amount of money, the like of which we ahoot into the air many time, a year. ''Than r looked back waM' msd any more. I would have laughed It off." JJOB concluded his piece "To ma a visit to the Lincoln Memorlsl will always be a moving experience. I wondered aa I looked at it this afternoon if maybe sometimes, when the news is bad and the weather la bad, maybe Jack Kennedy himself doesn't kind of snesk down here for a little chat. I'll bet he does, or at lesst that he'd like to." We hope Bob also had a chance to visit the Jefferson Monument, further down along the Mall toward the Potomac. If he did, we hope he did it the "right way," at night, when the great circular temple rises in the light, and the tall Negro in the neat National fark ranger uniform has time to chat with his job and the Monument, and how people react to it. and when the hiirh. circling the massive statue like words of hp-ht. They "I HAVE SWORN GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY AGAINST EV ERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN." POR some reason, one .Taffni-ann tho wav ham Lincoln. There is an austerity to our third President that was lacking in the homespun Abe. And yet, how fortunate it is that we do not have to choose between the two as to which was the "greatest"! We can simply be grateful that both contributed such strong pillars to the struc ture of freedom in which we live. The contributions of Lincoln, the backwoods lawyer, were largely those of heart and charac ter; those of Jefferson, the born aristocrat, the democrat by choice, were principally those of tiie mind. Both were masters of the language, Lincoln was at his best in the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural ; Jefferson in the Declara tion of Independence. IT IS well, on occasion, to visit the monuments of these men if only in memory or imagina tion for they still have much to tell us of the ideals to which true Americans subscribe, of the lofty aims of our forefathers, and, perhaps most important of all, of the responsibilities we still bear for these ideas and aims. It is well, in this day when cynicism and "practicality" tend to dominate too much of our thinking, to recall that idealism must not die. If it dies, America dies. For America, while it is many other things too, is also the home land of freedom, and free dom is the child of idealism. If the monuments of our great men do noth ing more than speak to us in those terms over the decades, they are serving the role for which they were intended. E.A. Monuments affairs problems which with the 16th President, down the great, green and deplored the loner up the reflecting pool and realized that Abe probably this way : visitors personally about iro u-enirraved words on of Jefferson stand out say ON THE ALTAR OF doesn't chat with Thorn nnp can phnr. with Ahr. Mystery Car Matter of Fact y Joseph aioP (c) New YorJMlealclJYmim THE POLITICS OF PROSPERITY Washington The politicians are wonderfully confident, but the policy-makers are vmlbly f r u s- trated. Thia contrast in the bosom of the Kennedy ad' ministration is very striking to a returning jP I reasons for the matters xrus too obvious to need emphasis. From Cuba to Laos, our problems abroad are currently proving intrac table or worse. And at home, Congress asked to pass a fairly modest domestic pro gram has also proved intrac table or worse, at least thus far. The reason for the confi dence of the politicians, in cluding the master-politician of them all. President Ken nedy himself, is the unexpect edly brisk performance of the U.S. economy. These days, the President la given to mocking reminiscences of a large rally of advisory economists orga nized last spring by Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dil lon. THE seera looked at their statistical fnrm-rharU InH favorite economic indicators. and almost unanimously pre dicted a recession this year. The argument that a reces sion was On the way led the President to make his last year's promise of early, mas sive tax cuts, which in turn produced the program of tax reduction and reform now be ing mulled over by the House Ways and Means Committee. But instead of a downtourn, we have an upturn, or so It is now believed. Consider as il lustration of the contrast, the history of the gross national product forecasts. The chair man of the President's Econo mic Advisors, Walter Heller, never joined the Treasury panel In forecasting a reces sion. Yet his technical staff was sufficiently infected with the prevailing pessimism to wish to make a low forecast of gross national product for 1963. Heller had lo deliver many a pep talk to his technicians, in order lo persuade them to agree to the final forecast figure of $578 billion. In No vember -December, thoy feared they were overestimat ing by about $5 billion lower. Now. however, there Is wide spread agreement, In the Treasury, in the Economic Advisory Council and else where, that Ihc $578 billion figure is an underestimate, once again about $5 billion. VET the fact that times are ft better than had been ex pected, has in no way shaken the Administration on the need for a massive tax cut. Instead, it has increased the confidence of both Secretary of the Treasury Dillon and r-conomic Aaviser neiier mat j the proposer1 tax cut will pro j duce the desired results. As Heller has put II. "Re ! versing a downturn Ls very I much harder than augment ! Ing an upturn." In other I words, when a recession was still feared, there were also lurking fears that the busi ness and investment Incen tive provided by a tax cut would merely hold the econ omy on an even keel, without promoting a real take-off. A major take-off. lo a wholly new level of produc j tlvity. Is what is wanted by the Administration. Nothing ! less, according to the Presi ' dent and his economic advis ors, will permit the rcduc 1 tion of the unemployment rate to an ,'icceptable 4 per j cent, while permitting Ihc ! economy to absorb the 6.4 j million persons who will be I added lo the labor force in the next five years On Capitol Hill, meanwhile, the prospects for a tax cut have not been at all impaired I I ajtnp Iration are M-DFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE. by the economy's better-than-expected performance. At first, it was thought that a Congress loudly averse to budget deficits would be more reluctant to cut taxes, with no bogey of a coming recession to get votes for the bill. IN reality, however, another bogey seems lo be having an even more powerful ef fect. The word is being passed that the expectation of a tax cut ia already stimu lating business; that a reces sion will indeed be caused if this expectation is disappoint ed; and that Congress will then be blamed, by the coun try as well as the President. In these circumstances, the Administration now relics on getting a tax package with less reform than the President requested, but with plenty of reductions to provide hand some incentives for business investment. From the Presi dent on down, the conviction la sincerely, even passionate ly, held that incentive-providing tax cuts are now not merely justifiable, but urg ently required. The primary motive of the pressure for tax cuts li not political, in short. But the fact that tax cuts, If voted, ought to produce very good times Indeed in 1S84, and the fur ther fact that good times are good politics in election years, are by no means forgotten either. Doing the right thing, in short, is also held to be the beat way to win votes; and this rare combination is al ways delightful. In the Day's News y FRANK JINKINS From Washington; The United States will send two battle groups, one of Army infantry and one of paratroopers, plus jet fighters, into communist - threatened Thailand next month, the De fense Department announced. The Pentagon said these troops will be accompanied by supporting aircraft and logis Uc elements. Although planning tor the move has been under way ior months, the arrival of these forces will serve as a show of strength at a time when communists are threatening to take over neighboring Laos. WHAT of this Laos business that has been in the head lines so long? What is Laos? And where is it? IT S a in the little country down the hot tropics of South east Asia. It's about the size of Oregon-area 91.000 square miles, as compared with Ore gon's 96,981 square miles. Us population is about the size of Oregon's - 1,850,000. accord ing to the U.N. estimate in 1961. At the 1960 census, Ore gon's population was 1,757, 691. Laos is a part of the former French Indo-China. It became a French protectorate back in 1893, when the French got de lusions of grandeur and start ed out to set up a world em pire. France lost it, along with the rest of Its Southeast Asian protectorates, back in the late 1940 s, when the Chinese com munists drove the French out. WHAT of the people of " l Laos? Well, they're an easy-going lot who would like to sit in their house by the side of the road and let the world go by it the world would just let them do it. One gains the im pression thst they don't care a hoot who governs them if government will just leave them alone to live In the easy going way they want to live. They regard this whole ruckus over the fate of Laos as a frightful nuisance. U1IAT of Thailand where we're preparing to send in a very considerable mili tary force designed to serve as a show of strength to get the word over to the communists MEDFORD, OREGON Today & Tomorrow By Walter j 1963. The EUROPEAN POLITICS This week end in Italy there are being held the first series of European elections. Next year there will be an election in Great Britain, and in 1965 there will be one in West Germany. Moreover there will be .some kind of Liiipminu r- rencn elec tion in December, 1965, be cause General de Gaulle's term of office ends in Janu ary, 1966. Unless Premier Fanfani is upset this weekend, we shall have in the IlIian election what might be called a pre view of the general move ment of European politics. Fanfani, who is a Christian Democrat, has formed a work ing arrangement with Nerfi, the leader of the Socialist party. Until this so-ctiled "opening to the left," the bi'lk of the Italian Socialists were allied with the Communists. At the national level, though not so completely In the lo calities, the Nenni Socialists have broken away from the Communists and have open ly denounced the undemocrat ic totalitarianism of the Com munist party. This political maneuver has strengthened the Christian democratic government and given il a good majority in the parliament. It has at the same time drawn the Chris tian Democrats away from the right and from the far right. It is of great historic signif icance that Fanfani's action has had the blessing of the Vatican. The issue in the elec tions this week end is wheth er the working arrangement between Christian Democrats and Socialists will be ratified and thus encouraged to de velop into a big coalition of the center. THE basic pattern of Italian nnllli. i. tint 4U ... - large mass parties are draw ing closer together and are drawing away from the true- oeiieving communists on the left and from the old-believing fascists, monarchists, feudal ists and reactionaries on the right. The same pattern is discern ible in West Germany. There the Social Democrats have turned away from their Marx ist inheritance and have con verted themselves into a par ty of the left center. The Christian Democrats are at the same time moving toward a Coalition with the Sorial TVm. ocrata presumably after me election oi lues wnen, it is believed, the Social Dem ocrats will have become a very large party, though they will be short of being a ma jority party. The basic pattern is also discernible in Great Britain. There the conservatism of the younger Tories is far to the left of what is called conserv atism in this country; the leftism of the Labor party is that they'd better stay out of Laos? Thailand is a different ket tle of fish. The Thais are a competent, capable lot. They know what they're about. They know what they want. What they want more than anything else Is to be LET ALONE to do as they please in their capable, charming way. A Maturing America By ERIC SEVAREID This. I'm afraid, is a short range arrow aimed only in I the general direction of a long range target. It s part of the: unsortcd im pedimenta left over from re c e n I travels. No one can visit modern Greece with out re-visiting ancient : Greece through its written ! classics, and no one can do I that without looking, of a sud-. ! den. at his own society with , ! different, if not wiser, eyes. It is an absurdly long jump from the golden age of Peri- i clean Greece and the reasons 1 j for its failure In the end. to I the New Frontier of John F. I Kennedy and the reasons for ' its failure in the beginning. If there is any connection, it I is to be found only in general I thoughts about the social bi . ology of nations The thought here is that the , United States has reached i middle age as a nation, knows 1 this in its bones but not ex plicitly in its mind, and there fore does not reflect it in its speech, including the pro i grams of political leaders. The familiar explanation ; for this government's failure ; to climb the steep passes of ! the New Frontier is not Lippmann Washington Post far to the right of Marxist so cialism. a THE European movement away from the ends to ward the center reflects the practical experience of Eu rope since the second world war. The feudal and aristo cratic elements of continental society have been largely liquidated as a political force. The criminal behavior of the Nazis and the Fascists has made the far right, as dis tinguished from the conserv ative and aristocratic right, disreputable. The business men, managers and techni cians who have achieved the brilliant recovery of Europe are not, indeed could not be. reactionaries. The past, if they had one, was lost in the war. It is the future which belongs to them, and they to the future. At the same time, the re covery of Europe has made irrelevant and uninteresting the socialism of the prewar era. The Socialist parties of Germany and Great Britain, and now of Italy, are no long er "working class' and Marx ist. They are middle class, which includes in modern Eu rope as it does in this coun try a great mass of blue-color workers as well as the white. In the Marxist sense, there is no class struggle in the ad vanced countries of Western Europe. But there is greater affluence than any Commu nist country has come any where near to. In the 18 years since the end of the war, the prestige of Soviet communism, which was bright while Europe was prostrated, has grown dim as Europe has recovered. To day, the Russian problem is how to extricate their advanc ed economy from the toils of the totalitarian regime. The old Communist doctrine flour ishes today only in the back ward countries, notably in China. ALTHOUGH there are no elections in the Soviet Union, there is ground for thinking that it, too, is in the midst of political change. Mr. Khrushchev is not a personal dictator as was Stalin. The Soviet Union is ruled by an oligarchy of which Mr. Khru shchev ia the boss and the leader, but not the absolute master. He Is faced, I venture to think, with a tangled knot to untie. The Soviet Union and its economy have reached a state of development where they are too complex to be run by dictation from the Kremlin. Russia needs at least a certain amount of freedom to think, to speak, to invent, to consult and to initiate. It also needs peace with the nu clear power of the West. On the other hand, histori cal experience shows that it is extremely difficult and dan gerous to loosen up the bonds of a regimented society. Lib erty is a heady drink, and again and again regimes forced by discontent to liber alize themselves have come crashing down not long after. My guess is that Mr. K. is stumped because he does not know how to let freedom ad vance without risking the very existence of the regime. I would not suppose that he is in such a tantrum about the artists merely because, like General Eisenhower and Mr. Truman, he dislikes what they paint. He is angry be cause he is frightened at what a growing freedom, which is unavoidable, will do to So viet society. enough - the simple argument that Congress balks and that it balks because the mood of the country, which the Con gress and election statistics accurately reflect, favors no great exertions. The argument adds that the American peo ple have always behaved this way. between wars and be tween depressions. They have, but to be con tent with this explanation is to explain modern America only in terms of the short range cycle of years and dec ades. Yet a case can be made for the proposition that a long range cycle of genera lions and centuries is also at work, that the evidence for it is now abundant and can explain even such transcient phenomena as the fate of the New Frontier. All previous American jen eratJons have considered their country as synonymous not only with perpetual motion but with perpetual youth. The youth of today, even more than their elders, know bet ter, even if they can't express it. They know that quantities have little to do with quali ties, that our traditional slo gan of "bigger and better" is a non-sequitur. The essence of middle age for a person is that he knows he mult begin to live within his means, physical, financial and spiritual. It is the same for a society. At middle age THINGS YOU WOULDN'T KNOW IF YOU HADN'T READ THEM HERE Daylight Savings Time causes watches and clocks to wear out faster . . . Baldness is sometimes a sign of bare j hair . . . ine name oi ine horse was actually Paul Re vere and it was really a jockey named Skinny Brown who was doing all the yelling about the British coming . . . Indians', too, were bothered by dry scalps . . . Bullfighting is not allowed in Ashland on Sunday (except by special permit) ... If the sun ever goes out, you can expect your heating costs to go up as much as 10 per cent . . . The War of 1812 was thoughtfully called off at midnight of Dec. 31 to avoid any future con fusion in history as to the name of the war ... A good way to answer the phone in stead of "hello" is by saying "Who is this?" in such a way that the caller doesn't know if you know who you are or if you want to play guessing games . . . There are only 27 members in the Butlers Un ion Local 403. PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY STUFF We were sitting around yesterday afternoon think ing about how wonderful it is that the fibrous mem brane which represents the future bone is composed of fibers and fibroblasts, which undergo alterations and are called osteoblasts, which be come arranged in layers and the matrix which is deposited encloses some of them, which are called os ieocytes, in spaces called lacunae. That's what we were sitting around thinking about yesterday afternoon. NAMES MAKE NEWS Tearig Rean, Rage Ohnson, Vickmill Ness, Gee Knorr, Bobkor Bun, Toe Kneeman Oh, Marr Katfeeld, Cheteye Rish, Murrig Ardner, Budpar Sons, Russjay Missun. 1 I HEACOUAJSURS I Z5"iP'f'y UrMA I ROOCEFSLLE S ELSE I W BUT 9 I nelse! mj m Q.'HUr.'S: KVaSJUSSUC'&tet ""What a catchy little slogan. I know we to win this time. A good slogan is half the an election!" Seeks Its person struggles to realize his final personality and a i places, not in terms of our society struggles to give form, money but in terms of our not merely dimensions, to its comprehension, and our atlen life. j tion span; reason tells us our This has little, if anything, i moral obligation to help oth to do with conservatism or ; crs cannot extend beyond our liberalism. It has to do with practical capacity to do so. reason, which the ancient Reason would cry halt to fur Greeks revered, and a con- ther increases in our copula cept of the "good life" which they institutionalized, a a Today, in America, reason is crying many halts, if only , already dense megalopolis il sotto voce In the most obvi-' a self-defeating process: for ous. measurable realm of nat- the automobiles, thus encour ural resources, it cries halt to : aged to proliferate, always the depletion of water levels saturates the temporary mar in the name of more and mors gin of space, factories. It cries halt to the Reason says the 50-mile indiscriminate spreading of : hike is silly, pesticides, in the name of ; shinier red apples. It cries The trouble with America halt to the vast use of bar- is not hardening of the arter biturates and tension relievers i ics. Its trouble is merely that in the name of momentary it has grown up, reached ma nirvana. It cries halt to en- j turity, and. like the ex ath gulfment of us all by more I lete of middle age, is feeling and more "news" when we bewildered and annoyed, can hardly grasp the meaning America knows, in its sub of the present news. conscious at least, that more Its gathering instinct is to bursts of "vigah" are likely cry halt to free immigration to produce nothing more pos if this is to mean the com- itive than a heart attack. It pounding of tragedy, Harlem knows that what it really upon Harlcms. It would like wants to do. what it really to cry halt to the piling of must do. is to slow down and weapon upon weapon to kill sort itself out. For 300 years enemies ten times over; to the it has been told what it w as fantastic spending for outer going to become. Now it wants space when the problem lies to know what it IS. in inner man and on terra (Distributed 1963. by The Hill firma. Syndicate. Inc.) Reason says that we are (All Rights Reserved) KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOR You can't collect your old age pension in Califor nia until you're 35. Its pop ulation is almost all people, although some of them just barely are. The governor. Richard Nixon, is a former city councilman from Whit tier. Los Angeles reaches from Yreka to Omaha but, in spite of this, it is consid ered quite big, really. Tha California legislature re cently passed a law that makes attempted suicide a crime punishable by death. THE GAME From the answer, you are supposed to guess the question and it goes like this: Answer: Cleopatra. Mata Hari and Florence Nightin gale. Question: Name three dead women. Answer: Terry Baker, Beck's and Fluhrer's. Question: Name a football player and two bakers. 9D FRIENDLY ADVICE ON A HOME PROJECT One Saturday afternoon a few years ago, we were out in front of our house trying to break up an un wanted driveway railing with a sledga hammer. We were pleased by the num ber of friends who stopped to take their turns swing ing the heavy sledge against the unyielding concrete. Each in turn, the hammer was swung by a man of tha cloth, a TV announcer, a truck driver, a clothing store owner and a sales manager. The thing that has always bothered us is that two friends elected to sit in their cars and offer endless advice. The fact they were both lawyers must mean something but we've never quite figured out what. re going battle in Identity overextended in foreign tion. It tells us that more and more superhighways, bridges and parking garages in the
